Data and Code for: When Externalities Collide: Influenza and Pollution

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Josh Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego, NBER; Matthew Neidell, Columbia University, NBER; Nicholas Sanders, Cornell University, NBER; Gregor Singer, London School of Economics

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Project Citation: 

Graff Zivin, Josh, Neidell, Matthew, Sanders, Nicholas, and Singer, Gregor. Data and Code for: When Externalities Collide: Influenza and Pollution. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-03-09. https://doi.org/10.3886/E165401V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Replication package for: When Externalities Collide: Influenza and Pollution.

Influenza and air pollution each pose significant health risks with global economic consequences. Their shared etiological pathways  present a case of compounding health risk via interacting externalities. Using instrumental variables based on changing wind direction, we show increased levels of contemporaneous pollution increase influenza hospitalizations. We exploit random variation in effectiveness of the influenza vaccine as an additional instrument to show vaccine protection neutralizes this relationship. Thus, pollution control and vaccination campaigns jointly provide greater returns than those implied by addressing either in isolation.  We show the importance of this consideration in addressing observed gaps in influenza incidence by race.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms air pollution; influenza; hospitalizations; vaccines; externalities
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
      I12 Health Behavior
      Q53 Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States of America
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2007 – 2017


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